Holy Scripture

Isaiah 64:8

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 8 and following) And now, Lord, you are our father, and we are clay; you are our potter, and all our works are the work of your hands. Do not be exceedingly angry, Lord, and do not remember our iniquity any longer. Look, your people are all of us. The city of your holy ones has become a desert; Zion has become…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins forever; but now look on us, for we are all thy people.

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6And there is none that calls upon thy name, or that remembers to take hold on thee: for thou hast turned thy face away from us, and hast delivered us up because of our sins.

7And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thy hands.

— Isaiah 64:8 —

9The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Zion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

10The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

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